Season 2 • Episode 19
LatestDave and Deena's plans for a secret getaway to renew their wedding vows turns chaotic. Meanwhile, Brian and Adam's babysitting duties for Dave and Deena's daughters are interrupted when Natasha shows up with a work emergency. Brian calls on Stephanie to look after the girls, but when a crisis occurs, he realizes that Laura is the one he should have asked to help. And after Nicole and Deena's Icing on the Cupcake store starts getting great press, an overwhelmed Nicole finds herself alone and without any help to tend to the many new customers.
Serial monogamist Brian O'Hara hits his mid-30s and suddenly realizes he's the last bachelor standing in his circle of friends. Not averse to the happily ever after his friends have achieved, Brian wonders whether he'll ever find Mrs. Right. The fact that he's in love with his best friend's girlfriend doesn't help his chances.
Acting
Barry Watson's puppy dog earnestness sells Brian's clueless charm.
Writing
Dana Stevens nails that specific thirty-something 'everyone's moving on but me' panic.
Creator
Dana Stevens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was ABC's attempt to recapture that 'thirtysomething' demographic after Lost became their identity. It lasted two seasons before Grey's Anatomy ate its lunch.
Creator Dana Stevens based Brian partly on her own single male friends in their 30s who kept falling for emotionally unavailable women. The 'what about Brian' phrase came from her actually asking that at a wedding.
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